Saturday, January 29, 2011

I started with a simple question: What team has had the best center fielders (or catchers, or shortstops) in its history? The following is my best answer to the question. See the first post in the series for a full explanation.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

I started with a simple question: What team has had the best left fielders (or catchers, or shortstops) in its history? The following is my best answer to the question. See the first post in the series for a full explanation.

10. Tampa Bay Rays

Monday, January 17, 2011

I started with a simple question: What team has had the best third basemen (or catchers, or shortstops) in its history? The following is my best answer to the question. See the first post in the series for a full explanation.

I started with a simple question: What team has had the best first basemen (or catchers, or shortstops) in its history? The following is my best answer to the question. See first post for full explanation.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

I started with a simple question: What team has had the best first basemen (or catchers, or shortstops) in its history? The following is my best answer to the question. See Previous Post for full explanation.

The question I started with here was: Which team has had the best first basemen over its history? So, with the help of Baseball-Reference.com, I decided to try to answer that question.

First of all, two caveats in this “study.” One is that I wasn’t interested so much in a collection of names as a collective contribution. In other words, I’m not going to highly rank a team like the Mets that has had a lot of Hall-of-Famers – when they were past their prime. I’m more interested in production than name recognition.

Secondly, I decided to weigh my rankings to give some credit to expansion franchises. The Giants and Cardinals have a lot of great players in their histories, but that’s partly because they’ve been around for 100-plus seasons. So a franchise’s age is taken into account when looking at a list of players.

So who had the best first basemen of all time? Here’s my own personal Top 10, in reverse order. Note that the players listed under each team are just some of the highlights in team history.

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Who Am I?

Once I was known as The Whiz Kid.
I live in southern Kentucky and when working in the library or performing onstage, I feed my baseball passion.
Not only do I enjoy writing about, discussing and analyzing baseball, I would also love to add something to the growing body of baseball knowledge. Either that or I'd like to give a player a really cool nickname. (Hey, hey, hey! It's Matt Albers!)